Synchronicity is a performance and an authorial DVD edition. A
multichannel media performance separates a performer from his
audience, while picture and sound get transferred from a confined
scene space into an open space of auditorium. Author-performer uses
simple light and audio devices, from time to time employing his own
voice, partially live and partially reproduced, in order to gradually
build happening of the image and the sound.

The performance is transmitted live into separated open space via 4
cameras and 4 microphones. Each camera and each microphone has its own
screen and speakers system. Hence, image and sound transfer is
happening with no additional processing, in 1:1 ratio. The performer
has no feedback information as to what the audience hears and sees.
Through combining light and sound sources, appearance and acoustics of
the space is being continually changed and adapted. A small shift
within inner space causes very big changes in the outer space. The
performance is recorded full time.

The second stage of project realization is a DVD edition. DVD medium
enables setting of parallel channels of video, sound and text in an
interactive modus. In this manner, a subject of synchronicity is again
being referred to through another media. The same DVD is
simultaneously a document of performance and an independent multimedia
work. It is distributed as an artwork and project documentation at the
same time. Thus authorised, the DVD renders an independent interactive
work which is set within gallery space as a projection with Dolby
surround sound system and remote control. The later enables visitors
to combine and change channels of sound, video and text. Each of the
few channels explains separate performance segment, for example, music
and sound; author's inner state; motivation; treatment of sound
preparation, etc....

IVAN MARUSIC - KLIF

Born in 1969. in Zagreb. Graduated from The School of Audio
Engineering in Amsterdam in 1994. His field of interest includes fine
arts (light installations and kinetic objects), music and sound for
theatre, set design (theatre, film and television) and performance
art. From 1996. he started working with computers - mostly in the
field of multimedia programming, interactive video and problems of
interfacing computers with the "real" world. Exhibited and performed
in Holland, Germany, USA, Austria, France, Denmark, Italy, Poland,
Macedonia and Croatia. From 2000. to 2002. tought multimedia and
installations at the Multimedia department of the Academy of Fine Arts
in Zagreb.